A Concise Economic History of Britain: From 1750 to Recent TimesCUP Archive, 2. sij 1954. - Broj stranica: 368 Professor Court's independent sequel to Sir John Clapham's Concise Economic History of Britain to 1750 investigates the economic life of Britain between 1750 and the onset of war in 1939. He describes the growth of the first industrial state, its days of prosperity and the persistent grimmer features. The first part, 'The Growth of an Industrial State', has chapters on population, agriculture, industrial innovation, transport and overseas trade; the instability of the economy; the state and foreign balance; social setting and the influence of war. The second part, 'The Victorian Economy and After', describes economic life in the Victorian age to 1880; the vicissitudes of an industrial state; industry and the social order; the origins of the welfare state; Britain as the leader of the world's economy, and the challenge to that leadership between 1880 and 1939. Britain's life is still deeply affected for good and ill by the process Professor Court describes. |
Sadržaj
POPULATION page | 3 |
The old state of population p 3 The large family and the conditions of | 13 |
AGRICULTURE AND THE LAND SYSTEM | 19 |
The cultivated area p 19 New demands and new uses for land p 22 | 38 |
The old and new localization of industry p 42 The heavy industries p | 45 |
The textile industries p 55 From domestic system to largescale organiza | 60 |
Communications on the eve of 1750 p 65 Expanding trade and transport | 72 |
INVESTMENT BANKING AND | 81 |
The conditions of economic expansion p 157 Agriculture p 161 | 184 |
THE VICISSITUDES OF AN INDUSTRIAL | 193 |
Agriculture p 200 Industrial production p 208 Innovation and | 223 |
INDUSTRY AND THE SOCIAL ORDER | 230 |
The growth of industrial occupations and towns p 230 The social politics | 264 |
THE ORIGINS OF THE WELFARE STATE | 270 |
The debate on poverty and the Poor Law p 275 Social legislation and | 287 |
GREAT BRITAIN | 300 |
The conditions of investment p 81 The rise of a national market | 102 |
The historical roots of laissezfaire p 105 The colonial system p | 111 |
The new political economy p 114 Towards a new commercial policy p | 118 |
The State and the new society p 122 The distribution of incomes p | 128 |
The economic effort of the war with France p 139 After the war p | 150 |
ECONOMIC LIFE IN THE VICTORIAN | 157 |
The origins of the free trade policy p 310 Britain as world banker p | 316 |
Industrialization and world trade p 319 Shipping p 321 Foreign invest | 335 |
| 342 | |
| 364 | |
Ostala izdanja - Prikaži sve
A Concise Economic History of Britain: From 1750 to Recent Times W. H. B. Court Pregled nije dostupan - 1954 |
Uobičajeni izrazi i fraze
activity agricultural American appeared Bank became become began beginning Britain British brought building capital classes coal colonies communications companies compared competition continued cotton demand depression direct early economic effect eighteenth century employment engineering England English especially Europe existing export fall farming finance followed forces foreign growing growth half important improvement income increase industrial influence interest investment iron kind known labour land later less living London manufactures materials ment middle million never nineteenth century North opening organization owed Parliament period persons political Poor Law population position possible problems production profits protection railway relations rise social society South supply tion took towns trade trade unions United Victorian wages wars whole